December 30, 2005, The Year 2005 in Review

December 23, 2005 No show this week, instead we present two of our WMUB Holiday Specials. Enjoy! Happy Holidays from all of us!

December 16, 2005 Christmas Songs: What is Your Favorite & Least Favorite? Guests: Neal Gittleman, Music Director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and WMUB's own "Mama Jazz."

December 9, 2005 The Holidays: Sacred vs. Secular, Guests: William Messer, Cincinnati writer and activist; Dr. Ben Voth, Miami University associate professor and Elder with the Oxford Bible Fellowship.

December 2, 2005 Freedom of the Press in Campus Journalism Guests: Richard Goehler, Partner with Frost Brown Todd LLC, Cincinnati; Sasha Bellman Advisor for The Miami Student at Miami University; a nd Julie Hollyday, Editor-in-Chief of The News Record, University of Cincinnati

November 25, 2005 The Culture of Argument in American Media, Guest: Dr. Richard Campbell, Director of the Journalism program at Miami University (encore from June 3, 2005.)

November 18, 2005 Deconstructing the November 8 Election, Guests: Gene Krebs, State Director of Greater Ohio and Chandra Yungbluth, Executive Director of the Hamilton County Democratic Party

November 11, 2005 Remembering Those Who Served
Guest: Carl M. Becker, author of Miamisburg in World War II: The Soldiers and Sailors of an American Community (History Press, 2005)

Friday November 4, 2005 Election Reform on Ohio's Ballot Guests: Richard Gunther, of Reform Ohio Now
Representative Kevin Dewine, of the 70th Ohio House District and Bill Cohen, Statehouse Bureau Correspondent for Ohio Public Radio.

Friday October 28, 2005 The American Empire, Guest: Andrew Cayton, PhD, Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University and co-author of: The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000

Friday October 21, 2005 The Best of Forum, Highlights of some of our favorite shows during the past year or so.

Friday October 14, 2005 Rolling Back School Levies. Guests: Sharon Poe, member of Citizens for Accountability and Results in Education; Thomas Ash, Buckeye Association of School Administrators.

Friday October 7, 2005 Universities & Off-campus Housing, Guests: Jane Howington, City Manager, City of Oxford, Ohio; Bobbe Burke, Assistant Director of Student Activities, Miami University; Jim Hintz, Director of Off-campus Housing, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

Friday September 30, 2005 Amateur Radio and Emergency Communications Guest: Dr. Jim Garland, amateur radio operator (W8ZR) and President of Miami University; Gary Hollenbaugh (NJ8BB,) member of the Preble County, Ohio Skywarn Group; and Jim Keen (WB8NYM) WMUB Chief Engineer.

Friday September 23, 2005 A special broadcast from the Public Radio Program Directors' Conference in St. Louis, MO. Guests: Ed Gordon and Farai Chideya from NPR's News & Notes with Ed Gordon

Friday September 16, 2005 A Regional Arts Preview A broadcast from the Midwest Arts Conference in Indianapolis.
Guests: Stuart Secttor, Facilities Director, Richmond Civic Theatre, Richmond, Indiana; Patti Hannan Swofford, Director, Miami University Performing Arts Series; Tina McPhearson, Programming Director, Victoria Theatre Association, Dayton, OH; Ed Stern, Producing Artistic Director, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Harold Norris, president of H-Art Management, New York and Kevin Ward, Artistic Director, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Friday September 9, 2005 The Fall TV Season
Guest: John Kiesewetter, Radio/TV writer with The Cincinnati Enquirer

Friday September 2, 2005 How I Spent My Summer Vacation Guests: Sandra Guile, Public Relations Coordinator, AAA Cincinnati; Bonita Washington-Lacey, Registrar and Professor at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana; Chris Swafford, Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Earlham College; Ron Rollins, Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Dayton Daily News

Friday August 26, 2005 The Origins and Legacy of Public Radio, Guest: Jack Mitchell, public broadcasting pioneer and author of Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio (Praeger, 2005)

Friday August 19, 2005 The Harry Potter Phenomenon
Friday August 12, 2005 Latino Culture in the Midwest, Guests: Ruben Herrera, Ohio Commission on Latino Affairs; Lisa Bernard, Hamilton Journal News; Mike Robinson, La Verdad Marketing, Cincinnati

Friday August 5, 2005 Backyard Astronomy Guests: Richard Hamilton, Obervatory Scientist and Craig Niemi, President of the Friends of the Observatory. A "live" broadcast from the Cincinnati Observatory Center

Friday July 29, 2005 Ask the General Manager, Guest: Cleve Callison, General Manager of WMUB Public Radio

Friday July 22, 2005 What We Need to Know about Darfur, Guests: Dr. Jeffrey Herbst, Vice President and Provost of Miami University; and Oliver Mogga, Miami University graduate student.

Some resources:
1) allafrica.com
2) mercycorps.org
3) careusa.org
4) savethechildren.org
5) ajc.com
6) nytimes.com (free, but must register)
7) bbc.co.uk (background); bbc.co.uk (story)

Music in this show (Songs for Sudan and ASAP from benefit albums for Darfur aid)

Friday July 15, 2005 (encore program from 3/18/05) The Social Security Debate Guests: Dr. Robert Applebaum, Director of the Long-Term Care Project of the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University and Dr. William Even, professor of Economics at Miami University.

Friday July 8, 2005 Finding Missing Children Guests: Clark Donely, News Director WSNY Radio, Columbus; Mike Etter, Public Safety Director, City of Trotwood, Ohio; Bob Hoever Deputy Director of Special Operations for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Friday July 1, 2005 Patriotism vs. Nationalism Guests: Jeffrey Kimball, Miami University History Professor and Vince McKelvey, Public Afairs Editor at the Dayton Daily News; and Major General Patrick Brady, U.S. Army retired and Chairman of the Board of the Citizens Flag Alliance

Friday June 24, 2005 Wild Animals in Society
Guests: Tim Harrison, Director of Outreach for Animals in Dayton, Ohio and author of Wild Times: Tales from Suburban Safaris; and Damien Oxier, Advanced Wildlife Rehabilitator in Butler County for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife and Director of Arrowhead Reptile Rescue in the Cincinnati area.

Friday June 17, 2005 The 10 Commandments in America
Guest: Chris Hedges, New York Times reporter and author of Losing Moses on the Freeway

Friday June 10, 2005, The Changing Face of Classical Music
Guests: Neal Gittleman, Music Director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra; Janelle Gelfand, fine arts writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer

Friday June 3, 2005 The Culture of Argument in American Media, Guest: Dr. Richard Campbell, Director of the Journalism program at Miami University

Friday May 27, 2005 The Challenge of Military Recruiting Guests: Captain McKinley Cunningham, of the U. S. Army Recruiting Command, Cincinnati area; Sergeant Major Michael Belcher, Ohio National Guard, Columbus; Dr. Allan Winkler, professor of history at Miami University.

Friday May 20, 2005 Summer Movies Guests: Margaret McGurk, film critic for the Cincinnati Enquirer and
T.T. Clinkscales, whose film reviews appear in Cincinnati weekly, Citybeat

Friday May 13, 2005 The Disappearing Ohio Farm, Guests: Larry Frimerman, Director of the Three Valley Conservation Trust; Gene Krebs, State Director of Greater Ohio: A Campaign for Ohio's People, Land and Prosperity; and David Bohardt of the Dayton Homebuilders Association
(encore from March 4, 2005)

Friday May 6, 2005 The Return of the Queen A special broadcast from the Delta Queen and the Showboat Majestic on the riverfront in downtown Cincinnati. Guests: Captain Gabe Chengery, Riverlorian Clara Christensen and Director of the Showboat Majestic, Tim Perrino.

Friday April 29, 2005 Shakers in Ohio, Guest: Cheryl Bauer co-author with U.S. Representative Rob Portman, (now U.S. Trade Representative) Wisdom's Paradise: The Forgotten Shakers of Union Village

Friday April 22, 2005 Pump Prices & Fuel Conservation Guests: Dr. James Swaney, Chair of Economics at Wright State University; Michael Kunnen, President of the Greater Cincinnati Gasoline Dealers Assn; and Andy Wallis of Spring Street Auto, WMUB's Car Guy on Free Advice.

Friday April 15, 2005 No show this week due to scheduling problem

Friday April 8, 2005 Ask the General Manager. GM Cleve Callison and Program Director John Hingsbergen will take your calls about WMUB

Friday April 1, 2005 Don't Be Fooled: Internet Scams, Identity Theft and Other Invasions of Our Privacy, Guests: Loretta Kraus Investigator with the Cleveland Regional Office of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission; and Steve Truitt Detective Sergeant with the Miami University Police

Friday March 25, 2005 Ohio's E-Check Guests: John A. Paul, Supervisor, Regional Air Pollution Control Agency
Dayton, Ohio and Cory Chadwick, Director of the Department of Environmental Services of Hamilton County, Ohio

Friday March 18, 2005 The Social Security Debate Guests: Dr. Robert Applebaum, Director of the Long-Term Care Project of the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University and Dr. William Even, professor of Economics at Miami University.

Friday March 11, 2005 One Man's Opinion Guest: Bill Rentschler, columnist for the Hamilton Journal News and author of Bring Back America, Land That We Love

Friday March 4, 2005 The Disappearing Ohio Farm, Guests: Larry Frimerman, Director of the Three Valley Conservation Trust; Gene Krebs, State Director of Greater Ohio: A Campaign for Ohio's People, Land and Prosperity; and David Bohardt of the Dayton Homebuilders Association

Friday February 25, 2005 Natural Disasters & Climatic Change Guests: Ron Parker, Assistant Professor of Geology at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana; and Steve Norris, meteorologist at WCPO-TV, Cincinnati

Friday February 18, 2005 A Special edition of Ask the General Manager Guest: WMUB General Manager Cleve Callison

Friday February 11, 2005 An Agenda for Ohio, Guests: Bill Cohen, reporter for the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau and William Hershey, statehouse reporter for the Dayton Daily News, discussing Governor Robert Taft's State of the State Address and his proposed biennial budget.

Friday February 4, 2005 The Book Club of the Air. A discussion of Miami University author Kay Sloan's The Patron Saint of Red Chevies. "Live from Miami" University's King Library.

Friday January 28, 2005 NPR's Korva Coleman. E-mail or call in your questions for this veteran NPR reporter and program host.

Friday January 21, 2005 Is Our Drug Supply Safe: How do we choose what drugs to take? Guest: Dr. Cathy Rosenbaum is a practicing pharmacist and the Clinical Effectiveness and Safety Officer at Bethesda North Hospital, Cincinnati

Friday January 14, 2005 The Past Year in Local, Regional and National Broadcast Media Guest: John Kiesewetter, Radio/TV writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Friday January 7, 2005 Your Agenda for the Second Bush Term, If the president would ask, what items would you add to the agenda? Guests: Miami University Political Science Professor Jeanne Hey and Miami Economics Professor George Davis.

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